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Colorado City is located in northeastern Mohave County at 36°59′25″N 112°58′33″W (36.99026, −112.97577) Its northern border is the Arizona – Utah state line, with the town of Hildale, Utah, to the north. Arizona State Route 389 passes through the center of town, leading east 31 miles (50 km) to Fredonia.
Short Creek Community. / 36.98944°N 112.97806°W / 36.98944; -112.97806. The Short Creek Community (now Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah ), founded in 1913, began as a small ranching town in the Arizona Strip. [ 1] In the 1930s it was settled by Mormon fundamentalists .
Future FLDS leader Leroy S. Johnson talking to journalists following the raid. The Short Creek raid was the largest mass arrest of polygamists in American history, and it received a great deal of press coverage. [15] After the raid, polygamists continued to live there, and later the town was renamed Colorado City. [15]
The Short Creek raid was an Arizona Department of Public Safety and Arizona National Guard action against Mormon fundamentalists that took place on the morning of July 26, 1953, at Short Creek, Arizona. The Short Creek raid was the "largest mass arrest of polygamists in American history". [ 1] Law enforcement arrested polygamist men and removed ...
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [ 8]
Rulon Timpson Jeffs (December 6, 1909 – September 8, 2002), known to followers as Uncle Rulon, was an American polygamist and religious leader who served as the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), a Mormon fundamentalist organization based in Colorado City, Arizona, United States, from 1986 until his death in 2002. [1]
Benjamin Bistline. Benjamin "Ben" Granger Bistline (21 April 1935 – 25 June 2016) was an American historian of Mormon fundamentalism in Short Creek, a community of which he was a part. Bistline wrote a book which documented the polygamists living in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, and the creation of the Fundamentalist Church of ...
The jury has been sent to deliberate after attorneys presented their closing arguments Friday in the civil trial of the parents of a Texas high school shooter, more than six years after their son ...